Thread by @TourOfTheFuture

I think many pro-democracy folks think "fighting back"
means lying and cheating like the GOP.

It doesn't have to.

We can develop an mastery of a highly effective
strategic framework called the OODA loop.

"The strength of OODA thinking is that incorporates adversaries."

OODA stands for

* Observe
* Orient
* Decide
* Act

... and continuously repeat.

Observe means to have situational awareness, to identify dangers, to spot trends, to notice vulnerabilities and possibilities in the problem at hand.

Mindfulness of what is going on inside, and in your community, and in the world.

Orient pre-supposes you know what you want. But to orient is to align yourself with your goal or your desired outcome in accordance with what you observe.

Position yourself so that you can have maximum impact while suffering minimal damage.

Decide is taking the theory of the world you've developed and coming up with a hypothesis or plan for achieving what you want.

To reduce gun violence,
to improve policing,
to reduce institutional racism,
to disrupt the fascists' operations...
you decide on a course of actions.

Act is to carry out your plan...

and to pay attention if your actions are having the desired effect.

Which leads us back to observe.

In real life, this is a model of how it is to be in the world and survive, continuously doing all four at the same time and refining each as time progresses.

For more intellectual pursuits, you may do it more sequentially, like when the adversary is not a person but something like a logistical challenge or a business problem.

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